@TT For me as a TW newbie without HTML coding knowledge but with a need of note-taking and knowledge management, knowing that TW is a quine (had to look up the word) does NOT help me whatsoever in understanding TW. That it is "one file, saving upon itself", as Birthe notes, is nothing unusual: a Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Markdown, ……… file does exactly that when you click on "save" after making changes.
So, what is the point in pushing the quine point? If it helps you to understand TW, great, but that does not necessarily apply to others. 3 May 2020, 13:18 by [email protected]: > Ciao Birthe! Your thought of TW is perfectly right! You likely not realise it > is very UNusual. > > Rather than ruin Mat's thread I commented here on the nature of Quines: > > https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/tiddlywiki/xU-OvNupktI > > Best wishes > TT > > On Sunday, 3 May 2020 12:09:17 UTC+2, Birthe C wrote: > >> Hi TT, >> >> Please do explain? >> >> The thought that everything is in that one file, saving upon itself ;-), >> that we could open that file in an editor and see what ever is in it (no >> secrets). That is around the point my brain stops. >> >> Birthe >> >> søndag den 3. maj 2020 kl. 11.11.18 UTC+2 skrev TiddlyTweeter: >> >>> Ciao Mat >>> >>> Its certainly true that the "quine" nature if TW often inspires underwhelm. >>> I tried getting attention to it on Twitter to no avail. Even with hardened >>> readers of fringe material. >>> >>> So I broadly grasp it is not in your thought. Or most any other, YET. >>> >>> I think the issue devolves to concepts of function--do they help or not? >>> >>> For my kind of brain KNOWING TW is a quine helps a lot. >>> >>> But that is for another thread. Yours is Good without it. A dopo. >>> >>> Best wishes >>> TT >>> > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "TiddlyWiki" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to > [email protected]> . > To view this discussion on the web visit > > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/50e15b1b-c7da-40ab-a84f-2793e86fb361%40googlegroups.com > > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/50e15b1b-c7da-40ab-a84f-2793e86fb361%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer>> > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/M6P5jA7--3-2%40tutamail.com.
